The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-04-16
General News.

One Of the Pacific roads is said to have lost
thirty bridges by recent floods.
The total coinage of the U. S. MINIS during
March was So, 1905, including 1920, $3.50
standard dollars.
culiarites of those of an owl is said to be liv-
ing in Lincoln, Placer county, Cal.
The public debt statement issued April LIST,
shows reduction Of So, S08,467 during
March. Total cash in the Treasury, S45S, ILL.,
086.
The puddlers, heaters and rollers of the
Susquehanna Rolling Mill, at Columbia,
Penna, have demanded an increase of 10
cents per ton to conform to the Philadelphia
scale.
March fires, according to the New York
Daily Commercial Bulletins estimate, cost
the United States and Canada SIC, 410, 900, or
about S., O00 900 above the average in that
month for a dozen years past.
Two fires in GAINESVILLE, Tennessee, be-
tween o'clock and noon on April Srd, de.
stroyed "a buildings, causing loss estimated
at $250,G Two other fires occurred during
the afternoon, but did little damage.
A gust of wind blew passenger off train
on the Eastern road, near Mystic river, as he
was attempting to pass from one car to anoth-
er while the train was going at full speed, but
he escaped serious injury, as he was tossed
into deep snow bank.
The stables and car houses of the Boston
Consolidated Street Railroad Company at
Maiden, Massachusetts,, were burned on April
3. with so horses and a quantity of hay and
harness. and some rolling stock. The fire was
caused by the bursting of a coal-oi lamp
A telegram from St. Johns says that party
of sealers recently went from the west coast
of Newfoundland on a sealing expedition.
The ice moved seward, carrying the men with
it. Two bodies have been recovered from the
ice foe. The men had been frozen to death.
Two hundred laborers at the American Iron
Works of Jones & Laughlin, in Pittsburg,
struck on April for an advance IN wages OF
forty cents per day. The men were granted
an increase of Is per cent. recently, and the
firm refused to make any further concessions.
During Salvation Army meeting in hall
in Savannah. Ga, on April 3rd, rough in
suited a lady and her escort struck him,
whereupon a free fight took place, in which
TWENTY-FIVE men were more or less battered
nm. The combatants fought for twenty min
utes before the police arrived.
The suit, by the owners, for damages from
the Grand Trunk Railway Company for kill
ing Jumbo is soon TO come to trial IN New
York. The amount asked is 500, 900 and q
part of the testimony already taken by aifida-
Wit is to the effect that the elephant was worth
$4,000 year for circus purposes.
Kings mill dam at Ingersoll, Ontario, was
swept away Monday, April End, by freshet.
A tenement occupied by four families was
wrecked by the flood. John Bowman and
his daughter, young man named Mclean
and child were drowned, and man named
Laird and his daughter are missing
The saloon keeper in Maine is likely to
travel thorny path under the new feature
of the Prohibition law there. He cannot sell
liquor without United States license, and
under the new State law, the possession OF
United States license is all the evidence re-
quired to convict him of being rumseller.
The books of the internal revenue officers
are open to public inspection, and the mo-
ment the saloon keeper takes out United
States license he pleads guilty of breaking the
State law.
A telegram from Chatham, Massachusetts,
says the storm of April I'd was the worst of the
winter. During the afternoon the wind blew
with great force, uprooting trees. breaking
wires and blowing down fences. The snow
drifted badly, blocking the roads. The sea
outside and ON the shoals was something ter
rible. The Pollock Rip lightship was blown
from her station. The gale at Vineyard Hav-
en- was the most violent for several years. A
number of schooners and other vessels were
driven ashore, but no loss of life is reported.